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WE ALL GO BACK TO WHERE WE BELONG

I. WE ALL GO BACK TO WHERE WE BELONG

In 1963, John Giorno became the protagonist of Sleep, one of the first notoriously unwatchable films by his friend and one-time lover Andy Warhol.

JOHN GIORNO AT EIGHTY

I celebrate John’s life and work, now in his 80th year!             I knew about John from his long relationships with Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs, among others, but mostly I knew of him as the guy behind the Dial-A-Poem phone service that began in the mid-sixties, presented initially at venues like The Museum of Modern Art in 1970.

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